MEF WEB SITE PRIVACY STATEMENT

MEF is committed to protecting your privacy on-line.We use the information we collect about you to process orders and to provide a personalised service to you when you visit our website using sessional cookies. At MEF, we appreciate that you do not want the personal i information you provide to us distributed indiscriminately and here, we explain how we collect information, what we do with it and what controls you have.

What data do we collect?

So that we can provide a personalised service, we may, upon registration or at other times, ask you to submit information such as your name, e-mail address, postal address and telephone number.You are under no obligation to provide such information. However, if you should choose to withhold requested information, we may not be able to provide you with certain on-line services. In addition, when ordering goods and services via credit card, we will need to know your credit card number and expiration date.

How is the information used?

MEF may use the information you provide to:-

• identify visitors; 
• verify financial transact ions; improve the content of our web site; 
• customise the content and/or layout of our page for each individual customer; 
• provide advertisements that are relevant to you and which support any specific requests for information you may make through keyword searches; 
• carry out research on our customers' demographics, interests and behaviour; and 
• send you information we think you may find useful, including information about new products and services. 

You can tell us not to contact you or share the information with a third party either at initial registration or later through updates or amendments to your personal information. We may occasionally send you direct mail about products and services we feel may be of interest to you. This will only come from us (or our agents) and only if you have indicated that you do not object to these offers

With whom is the information shared? 

At times, MEF may enter into co-branding arrangements with other reputable organisations, with whom your personal information may be shared. You can, however, tell us not to do so, by

MEF may disclose your personal information to business partners or sponsors, but this is specifically described to you prior to collecting the data or prior to transferring it.

MEF may disclose aggregate statistics about our site visitors, customers and sales in order to describe our services to prospective partners, advertisers and other reputable third parties and for other lawful purposes, but these statistics will include no personally identifying information. 

MEF may disclose personal information if required to do so by law or if it believes that such action is necessary to protect and defend the rights, property or personal safety of MEF, the site or its visitors.

This site contains links to other sites. MEF is not responsible for the privacy policies or the content of such sites.

Security

MEF places a great importance on the security of all personally identifiable information associated with our customers. We have security measures in place to attempt to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of customer data under our control.While we cannot ensure or guarantee that loss, misuse or alteration of data will not occur, we use our best efforts to prevent this.

Use of cookies

Cookies are pieces of information that a website transfers to your hard drive to store and sometimes track information about you. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but if you prefer, you can change your browser to prevent that. However, you may not be able to take full advantage of a website if you do so. Cookies are specific to the server that created them and cannot be accessed by other servers, which means they cannot be used to track your movements around the web. Although they do identify a user's computer, cookies do not personally identify users and passwords and credit card information are not stored in cookies. 

We use cookies to:-

• identify who you are and to access your account information; 
• ensure that you are not asked to register twice; 
• to ensure timely reminders are sent for subscription renewal; 
• control how often visitors see similar ads; 
• track preferences and to improve and update our website; and estimate our audience size and patterns; 
• track the progress and number of entries in some of our promotions and contests.